Update UI.

app.py

@@ -250,6 +250,9 @@ def second_stage_ranked_docs(selected_query_kps, first_stage_pids, pid2abstract,
     for pid in top_pids:
         # Exclude papers from the seed set in the result set.
         norm_title = " ".join(pid2abstract[pid]['title'].lower().strip().split())
+        # The mlconf pid2abstract has braces in the titles sometimes - remove them
+        norm_title = re.sub('\{', '', norm_title)
+        norm_title = re.sub('\}', '', norm_title)
         if norm_title in st.session_state.seed_titles:
             continue
         retrieved_papers[pid2abstract[pid]['title']] = {
@@ -375,10 +378,9 @@ def perp_result_json():
 ########################################
 st.title('\U0001F341 Maple Paper Recommender \U0001F341')
 st.markdown(
-        '\U0001F341 Maple \U0001F341 makes controllable paper recommendations personalized to you based on a \U0001F331 seed set '
-        '\U0001F331 of papers. The seed set of papers is used to build a \U0001F9D1 personalized profile \U0001F9D1 of keyphrases '
-        'which describe the seed papers. These are your profile descriptors. You can change your recommendations by editing '
-        'the list of descriptors, or including or excluding descriptors.')
+        '\U0001F341 Maple \U0001F341 uses a seed set of authored papers to make paper recommendations from ML and NLP conferences: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, UAI, AISTATS, ACL*, and EMNLP from years 2018 to 2023.'
+        '\n1. :white_check_mark: Select your username on the left\n2. :eyes: Verify keyphrases inferred for the papers and click '
+        '"\U0001F9D1 Generate profile \U0001F9D1"\n3. :mag: Request recommendations\n4. :repeat: Tune recommendations')
 
 # Load candidate documents and models.
 pid2abstract_cands, pid2sent_vectors_cands = read_candidates(in_path)
@@ -406,8 +408,9 @@ with st.sidebar:
     #                                  type='json',
     #                                  help='Upload a json file with titles and abstracts of the papers to '
     #                                       'include in your profile.')
-    selected_user = st.selectbox('Select your username from the drop-down',
-                                 available_users)
+    st.markdown(f"<b style='color:red;'>Select your username from the drop-down:</b>", unsafe_allow_html=True)
+    selected_user = st.selectbox('**Select your username from the drop-down**',
+                                 available_users, label_visibility="hidden")
     if selected_user is not None:
         user_papers = json.load(
             open(os.path.join(in_path, 'users', selected_user, f'seedset-{selected_user}-maple.json')))
@@ -419,7 +422,7 @@ with st.sidebar:
         # Perform first stage retrieval.
         first_stage_ret_pids = first_stage_ranked_docs(user_doc_queries=doc_vectors_user, per_doc_to_rank=500)
         with st.expander("Examine seed papers"):
-            st.markdown(f'**Initial profile descriptors**:')
+            st.markdown(f'**Initial profile keyphrases**:')
             st.markdown(display_profile_kps)
             st.markdown('**Seed papers**: {:d}'.format(len(user_papers['papers'])))
             for paper in user_papers['papers']:
@@ -430,13 +433,15 @@ with st.sidebar:
 
 if selected_user is not None:
     # Create a text box where users can see their profile keyphrases.
-    st.subheader('\U0001F4DD Seed paper descriptors')
+    st.subheader('\U0001F4DD Seed paper keyphrases')
     with st.form('profile_kps'):
-        input_kps = st.text_area('Edit seed descriptors:', display_profile_kps,
-                                 help='Edit the profile descriptors if they are redundant, incomplete, nonsensical, '
-                                      'or dont describe the seed papers. OR if you would like the descriptors to '
-                                      'capture aspects of the seed papers that the descriptors dont currently capture.',
-                                 placeholder='If left empty initial profile descriptors will be used...')
+        input_kps = st.text_area(
+            'Add/remove keyphrases to fix redundancy, inaccuracy, incompleteness, or being nonsensical:',
+            display_profile_kps,
+            help='Edit the profile keyphrases if they are redundant, incomplete, nonsensical, '
+                 'or dont accurately describe the seed papers. You can also add keyphrases to '
+                 'capture aspects of the seed papers that the keyphrases dont currently capture.',
+            placeholder='If left empty initial profile keyphrases will be used...')
         input_user_kps = parse_input_kps(unparsed_kps=input_kps, initial_user_kps=user_kps)
         col1, col2, col3 = st.columns([1, 1, 1])
         with col2:
@@ -462,13 +467,13 @@ if selected_user is not None:
     
     # Create a multiselect dropdown
     if 'kp2val_vectors' in st.session_state:
-        # with st.expander("Examine paper-descriptor alignment"):
+        # with st.expander("Examine paper-keyphrase alignment"):
         #     user_tplan = st.session_state.user_tplan
         #     fig = plot_sent_kp_alignment(tplan=user_tplan, kp_labels=input_user_kps,
         #                                  sent_labels=range(user_tplan.shape[0]))
         #     st.write(fig)
             
-        st.subheader('\U0001F9D1 Profile descriptors for ranking')
+        st.subheader('\U0001F9D1 Profile keyphrases for ranking')
         with st.form('profile_input'):
             st.markdown("""
                             <style>
@@ -477,7 +482,7 @@ if selected_user is not None:
                                 }
                             </style>
                             """, unsafe_allow_html=True)
-            profile_selections = st.multiselect(label='Add or remove profile descriptors to use for recommendations:',
+            profile_selections = st.multiselect(label='Include or exclude profile keyphrases to use for recommendations:',
                                                 default=input_user_kps,  # Use all the values by default.
                                                 options=input_user_kps,
                                                 help='Items selected here will be used for creating your '